It is the responsibility and desire of the department to
protect and ensure the convenience, enjoyment, health and safety of users of
safety roadside rest and vista point areas. Unless allowed under other
provisions of these regulations, the following are prohibitions and
restrictions for all users of safety roadside rest and vista point
areas.
(a) Camping is
prohibited.
(b) Vehicles shall not
be parked and persons shall not remain for more than eight (8) hours in any
twenty-four (24) hour period.
(c)
No parking is allowed for any period of time for the purpose of allowing any
traveler to engage in any activity off of the safety roadside rest area or
vista point. It is the intent to forbid persons to use the safety roadside rest
area or vista point to park their vehicle so as to allow the occupants to
engage in activities that include, but are not limited to, cross-country
skiing, off-road vehicle use, fishing, hiking, camping or hunting.
(d) Pitching of tents or erection of other
shelter is prohibited.
(e) Building
or maintaining campfires or other open fires is prohibited.
(f) Use of gas-fueled stoves is permitted
within suitably equipped vehicles, such as recreational vehicles, travel
trailers and motor homes.
Small portable gas-fueled campstoves and small portable
charcoal hibachis, barbecues or braziers, may be used if placed on the ground
or on designated stands and used in safe manner, in accordance with fire and
safety laws and ordinances and regulations thereunder.
(g) Solicitation for money is strictly
prohibited.
(h) Vehicles shall only
be parked in designated parking areas.
(i) All litter and garbage shall be placed in
trash receptacles provided.
(j) The
use of noise-producing instruments, megaphones, loudspeakers or other similar
devices which are used to amplify sound is not permitted.
(k) All use and activity shall cease in case
of emergency situations involving danger to the
general public which result
from fire, flood waters, traffic conditions, hazardous substances, gases or
other conditions whether occurring on or off the state highway.
Final determination of when such conditions exist shall be
made by a department representative or a California peace officer at the safety
roadside rest area or vista point.
(l) All animals shall be on a leash; animals
not restrained by a leash shall be controlled by appropriate enclosures or
other adequate restraint.
(m) The
unauthorized use of the department's water, electrical and gas utilities is
prohibited.
(n) Selling,
publicizing or other means of merchandising any article of merchandise, food,
service or thing is a prohibited commercial activity.
(o) There shall be no dumping of sanitary
wastes except at designated sanitary dump stations.
(p) Signs, cards, handbills, flags, pennants,
streamers or other such material shall not be attached, nailed, placed or
otherwise affixed to any tree, fence, building, light standard or other such
fixture or facility.
(q) Users
shall not block vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
